I think that kind of video is on a different site.

I knew that. Heard about it from a guy hanging out in front of a Big Kahuna burger smoking a Red Apple. 

It 100% did. It’s a historical fact, just like Hitler dying in a theater fire in Paris. 

“Everyone was doing drugs and using flamethrowers.”

I don’t know if “best remembered for ‘Bounty Law’” is accurate. I’d assume he’d be best remembered for killing members of a murder cult with a flamethrower. 

Of all the “hot takes from an interview somewhere else” articles, why does this one have to be a fucking video? I don’t want to watch a fucking video.

Uh, the joke was the very idea that I’d want her to tie my shoe for me. It was blatantly absurd, but she did it anyway, and it felt weird and wrong in every way.

Once, noticing my shoe was untied, I jokingly told my then-girlfriend to tie it for me. She did, and I found it unbearably awkward and weird. I couldn’t imagine getting any actual enjoyment out of people demeaning themselves like that. 

I don’t know if it was really necessary for her daughters to be in it, though. 

“For the most part that strike was really good, but it got kind of boring in the last third. If it had been like 20% shorter it would have been one of the all time great strikes.”

Or alternately, “You’re all microscopic cogs in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by a sharp-dressed man.”

I watch a lot of UK panel shows, and one thing that is weird to me is how many comedians who are clearly very intelligent people are still, to some degree, in awe of the monarchy. It will come up that someone met Charles at some event or that someone got an MBE or something like that, and most of the rest will sound…

He’ll die even faster if he insists on sticking with homeopathic medicine.

Have you ever seen a picket sign that explains the striker’s grievances? They almost always just say something like, “Unfair!” Which is fine, because nobody is going to stop and read a sign that says much more than that. You just kind of have to take it as a given that for people to be driven to strike, they have…

It’s certainly not a Good Thing.

I thought that “cancelled” started with the #cancelcolbert hashtag after Stephen Colbert made some jokes incorporating Asian stereotypes. (They were making fun of someone else’s complete tone-deafness, but the person who started the hashtag thought that was no excuse.) But I thought the idea was that they wanted to…

A friend of mine got very angry at me for debunking that on his Facebook page. It’s based on the thinnest amount of historical evidence. Something like, “Beethoven had ancestors who might have been from Spain, and there were Spaniards with Moorish descent, and also some people commented on Beethoven being pretty dark,…

It seems to me that while Avery might be guilty, his trial was far from fair. What bothers me even more is that Brendan Dassey was clearly railroaded, his entire “confession” seems like bullshit, and just like Avery, he’s sitting in prison for life. But since, “Man exonerated for one crime was later convicted of…

I have family who fought on both sides in the civil war, but I have no illusions about how wrong one of those sides was. 

Yep, unless you come from an especially isolated population, you don’t have to go very far to find extremely notable ancestors. One counterintuitive thing that is nonetheless true is that if you pick any person from say a thousand years ago, their surviving descendants will number either in the millions or zero. I…